Fulcrum Therapeutics Inc (FULC) Gagner

Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, which develops new medicines and focuses on unlocking gene control mechanisms to develop small molecule therapies. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts and currently employs 55 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2019-07-18. The firm's lead clinical program is pociredir, a small molecule designed to increase expression of fetal hemoglobin for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). The company uses technology to identify drug targets that can modulate gene expression to treat the known root cause of gene mis-expression. In addition to its product candidates, the Company has developed a discovery approach that it employs to systematically identify and validate cellular drug targets that can potentially modulate gene expression to treat known root causes of genetically defined rare diseases. The firm continues to advance its program for the potential treatment of inherited aplastic anemias, such as Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, and Fanconi anemia.